Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1911 — ADDITIONAL TODAY’S LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL TODAY’S LOCALS.

Ollie Rhoads left thia morning for Dallas, 8. Dak. Ed Duvall will join him at Chicago and they will register for the Rosebud land drawing soon to take place. Roy Stephenson, who is railroading out of Dallas, will -be the guide for Ed and Ollie and will himself be registered. Thursday of this week the Knights of Pythias of Pulaski county will hold a county meeting at Francesville and an invitation has been received by Chancellor Commander Davenport to all members of the local lodge to attend the meeting. There will be work in the rank of page. Sheriff W'. I. Hoover, Frank Kresler and Joe Davisson have each purchased a five-passenger Ford automobile. Davisson went to Earl Park, Benton county, where the agent for several counties for the Ford lives, and it is understood drove a sharp bargain, buying the machines for 3600 each. A fine display of large apples may be seen in the A. F. Long window. They were placed on exhibition by Chas. Pullins and are “strawberry” apples and weigh a pound each. They would look mighty good in some of the big Chicago apples shows where the choice of the land are on exhibition.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hawkins and Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Moore, of Mellott, Ind., after coming by auto as far as Rensselaer on tbelr way to Chicago, left their car hete and proceeded to Chicago by train. Reported bad roads in the Kankakee river vicinity were the cause of their decision tp go the balance of the way by train. Mrs. Lucy Clark suffered the fracture of one bone of her right arm just above the wrist Bunday afternoon. In company with her son James and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wilson Clark, she bad been automobile riding and just as she reached home and was stepping from the automobile she made a misstep and fell, striking on her right arm. She is able to be up and thinks that, the fracture is not an especially severe one.

John W. BrowA of ML Ayr, who for many year* waz a steamboat captain on Lake Michigan, came here thia morning and took the train for Chicago, where he was going on business. He stated that It waa reported that Editor Robertson, of the Pilot, wa* going to aurrender the reins of editorial control thia week. The Pilot plant belongs to one or two Mt Ayr merchant* and Editor Robertson ha* not been doing vary well financially, it la understood. Telephone your classified advertisements to ,The Republican. A quarter may find you a customer for something that you have known for a long time you did not need and yet did not want to throw away. Look around your premise* and see what you have tnr sals KJEu • • -